SLYNUX was a Knoppix-based live and installation CD designed with Linux beginners in mind. It comes with a wide variety of applications for web surfing, multimedia playback, image editing, and office tasks, as well as support for internal modems, digital cameras, printers, and most other common hardware. Besides English, the CD also includes Malayalam fonts and an on-screen keyboard for typing in Malayalam, the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala. SLYNUX was developed by an Indian teenager.

Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the second release candidate for SUSE Linux 10.1, the 14th public test release since the beginning of the SUSE 10.1 development process in September 2005: "I'm glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename 'Agama Lizard' RC2. We have fixed the majority of bugs from RC1 and will release an RC3 next week." As has become customary, the release announcement contains no information about the changes in this release. Unlike all previous SUSE 10.1 development builds, full installation discs have not been provided this time; instead, testers will need to download ISO images for RC1, install RC1, then download delta images for RC2 and merge them with the 'applydeltaiso' command. For more information please refer to these installation instructions. The delta ISO images are available from these download mirrors and also via BitTorrent.

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by SUSE Linux and other companies. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.

The openSUSE team has unveiled a new version of openSUSE's Leap edition. The new version, openSUSE Leap 42.3, is a conservative update to the Leap series, introducing mostly minor fixed and package updates. "The release of Leap 42.3 provides adopters a reliable server operating system for deploying IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments. Leap's third edition of the 42 series has more than 10,000 packages and offers stability-minded users a refresh and hardware enablement release. The release is powered by the same Linux 4.4 Long-Term-Support (LTS) kernel found in the previous Leap edition. Leap 42.3 continues to use KDE's Long-Term-Support release 5.8 as the default desktop selection while also offering GNOME 3.20, the same as used by SUSE Linux Enterprise. A variety of additional desktops is available in the installer through the newly designed desktop selection." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. openSUSE 42.3 can be download in Full DVD or Network Install editions. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-42.3-DVD-x86_64.iso (4,425MB, SHA256, bittorrent), openSUSE-Leap-42.3-NET-x86_64.iso (108MB, SHA256).

The openSUSE team has announced the availability of a new version of the distribution's Leap edition. openSUSE Leap provides a stable base, similar to SUSE Linux Enterprise, with the addition of community-provided software packages. The latest version, openSUSE 42.2, features KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop, version 4.4 of the Linux kernel and over 1,400 new packages in the distribution's software repositories. "Members of the openSUSE Project are pleased to announce the release of the next minor version of Leap - openSUSE Leap 42.2. Leap is made to give stability-minded users and conservative technology adopters peace of mind. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is powered by the Linux 4.4 long-term support (LTS) kernel and is a secure, stable and reliable server operating system for deploying IT services in physical, virtual or cloud environments. A selective process of including well-established packages in openSUSE Leap 42.2 gives new meaning to the term Linux optimization." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso (4,181MB, SHA256, torrent), openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64.iso (95.0MB, SHA256).

Douglas DeMaio has announced a new, and probably final, release candidate for openSUSE 42.2 Leap. The new release candidate, openSUSE 42.2 RC2, divides the Mesa Nouveau 3D video driver into a separate package to avoid crashes when using the Plasma desktop. The new release candidate also introduces Btrfs quotas which put limits on the amount of disk space the file system can use. "Users of Leap's newest version will notice improved capabilities with snapper snapshots based on the Btrfs file system, which is the default file system selection. A new Btrfs quota concept makes snapper much less disk-hungry and can be manually setup. Snapper is a poka yoke (a mistake-prevention tool) and can give system administrators confident about updating new packages and rolling back the system if an error is made. There is a selection of other file systems for Leap, but benefits of snapper are not available with the other file systems." The release announcement has further details. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0272-Media.iso (4,180MB, SHA256), openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0272-Media.iso (95MB, SHA256).

The openSUSE project has released a new development snapshot for the distribution's Leap edition. The new snapshot, openSUSE 42.2 RC1, features mostly minor updates to the KDE and GNOME desktop environments, along with a minor update to the Linux kernel. "RC1 delivers a professional version that includes OpenStack client software and several other software stacks developers and system administrators will find useful. RC1 adds new bug fixes for KDE as Plasma 5.8.1 provides several commits to provide a more stable performance for KDE users. The long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma 5.8 has several open-source users excited about the stability potential and rebirth of KDE. GNOME games were updated in RC1 as five-or-more, four-in-a-row and Iagno updated to the GNOME 3.20.2 version. In addition to having GNOME and KDE desktop environments, the Leap version offers several other desktop environments like Cinnamon, Xfce. For those looking for lightweight login / display manager, RC1 offers LightDM 1.19.5." The full release announcement has further details. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0245-Media.iso (4,107MB, SHA256), openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0245-Media.iso (95MB, SHA256).

The openSUSE project has announced the availability of a new beta release for the distribution's Leap edition. The new beta, openSUSE 42.2 Leap beta 3, offers upgrades to VirtualBox and features KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop environment. Firefox 49 and Thunderbird 45.3.0 are available along with many updated translations. "The openSUSE Leap 42.2 beta 3 was released today, one day ahead of schedule and the last beta for 42.2 brought quite a few new versions for people to test. VirtualBox was upgraded from version 5.0.24 in beta 2 to version 5.1.4 and there were an enormous amount of fixes applied to this newer version, which was released in August. KDE’s Plasma moved from its 5.7.95 beta version in Leap’s beta 2 to version 5.8.0 in beta 3. Plasma 5.8 is new but the purpose of openSUSE Leap is to have well established packages and since Plasma 5.8 is a long-term support release, it made sense to have 5.8 in the distribution even though it is very new. Plasma 5.8 will be supported for 18 months, according to KDE’s release team." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0215-Media.iso (4,102MB, SHA256), openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0215-Media.iso (95MB, SHA256).

The openSUSE project has announced the availability of a new beta snapshot for the project's upcoming openSUSE 42.2 "Leap" release. The new beta provides a preview of the Plasma 5.8 desktop environment along with an update to GTK, bringing the toolkit to version 3.20.9. "The release of openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta 2 today added several new minor versions including KDE's first Long Term Support version for Plasma. The highly anticipated release of Plasma 5.8 LTS will be the default desktop for openSUSE Leap 42.2 and its beta (5.7.95), which was just released last week, is in openSUSE's newest beta release. 'The quality of the distribution at this point looks quite good,' said Ludwig Nussel, Leap's release manager. 'Since Plasma 5.8 is still a beta version, it deserves more attention and thorough testing. We can help upstream to release a good 5.8.0 and get a decent quality default desktop in return.'" Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0193-Media.iso (4,100MB, SHA256, pkglist).

Ludwig Nussel has announced the availability of the first beta build of openSUSE 42.2, the upcoming new stable release scheduled to arrive on 16 November 2016: "openSUSE 42.2 beta 1 is on the mirrors. Even though it's called beta 1, the base system is mostly in sync with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 RC2. Therefore it's pretty safe to use on most systems already. So please put this under thorough test and file good bug reports. Compared to alpha 3 we got tons of bug fixes, of course, and more than a thousand more binary packages back-ported from Factory. The biggest missing component right now is Plasma 5.8 as announced earlier. The amount of build failures went down, thanks everyone for helping with that! Still we have quite some to resolve. As usual help is appreciated to fix the remaining ones. The upcoming beta 2 is only three weeks away, package submissions for beta 2 will be considered until September 15." Here is the brief release announcement as published on the opensuse-factory mailing list. Interested beta testers can download the installation DVD image from here: openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0164-Media.iso (4,058MB, SHA256, pkglist). A smaller "netinstall" image is also available: openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0164-Media.iso (94.0MB, SHA256).

Ludwig Nussel has announced the availability of the third alpha build of openSUSE 42.2, the upcoming new stable release from one of the oldest Linux distributions that's still going strongly today: "openSUSE 42.2 alpha 3 is on the mirrors. The merge of SLE 12 SP2 core components is basically done now. Since SLE enters release candidate phase now we won't see many updates coming from there any more. So even though it's called alpha 3 we are on a pretty solid base already. Among the countless leaf package updates, big changes since alpha 2 were completing the GNOME update, the integration of KDE Plasma 5.7 and TeX Live 2015. So time to put alpha 3 under stress, test it in real-world scenarios and file good bug reports! There will be a follow-up to this mail with a test plan for manual testing. We have five weeks now to get in shape for beta 1. There are quite some things to do." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download the installation DVD image from here: openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0109-Media.iso (4,432MB, SHA256, pkglist).

Ludwig Nussel has announced the availability of the second alpha build of the upcoming openSUSE 42.2: "openSUSE 42.2 alpha 2 is on the mirrors. Since alpha 1 lots of components from SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 were integrated, among them an updated YaST, a full GNOME 3.20 update, Samba 4.4, systemd 228, glibc 2.22, Mesa 11.2, CMake. KDE wasn't updated, so testing alpha 2 probably makes more sense on GNOME right now. Bugzilla is awaiting your reports. Some of those updates like CMake and glibc cause other packages to fail building. So the amount of broken packages in 42.2 has increased quite a bit, according to the dashboard we have 181 unresolvable or failed packages right now. Help to analyze and fix the issues is appreciated there. The next alpha is schedule for July 20th, so please submit your fixes and package updates no later than July 15th." Here is the full release announcement as published on the opensuse-factory mailing list. Download either the installation DVD image or the small "netinstall" file from here: openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64-Build0045-Media.iso (4,397MB, SHA256, pkglist), openSUSE-Leap-42.2-NET-x86_64-Build0045-Media.iso (93.0MB, SHA256).